diff --git a/tasks/dataverse-optional-settings.yml b/tasks/dataverse-optional-settings.yml
index c4d38155..d78ea914 100644
--- a/tasks/dataverse-optional-settings.yml
+++ b/tasks/dataverse-optional-settings.yml
@@ -19,3 +19,19 @@
 - name: set TabularIngestSizeLimit when provided
   shell: 'curl -X PUT -d {{ dataverse.options.tabularingestsizelimit }} {{ dataverse.api.location }}/admin/settings/:TabularIngestSizeLimit'
   when: dataverse.options.tabularingestsizelimit
+
+# Our automated harvesting server tests rely on the paging limits to be set to something low
+# (so that the behavior may be triggered and tested without having to create and export 100 datasets)
+
+- name: set page size limit for ListIdentifiers
+  become: yes
+  become_user: "{{ dataverse.payara.user }}"
+  shell: '{{ payara_dir}}/bin/asadmin create-jvm-options "-Ddataverse.oai.server.maxidentifiers={{ harvest.oaiserver.maxidentifiers }}"'
+  when: harvest.oaiserver.maxidentifiers is defined
+
+- name: set page size limit for ListRecords
+  become: yes
+  become_user: "{{ dataverse.payara.user }}"
+  shell: '{{ payara_dir}}/bin/asadmin create-jvm-options "-Ddataverse.oai.server.maxrecords={{ harvest.oaiserver.maxrecords }}"'
+  when: harvest.oaiserver.maxrecords is defined
+
diff --git a/tests/group_vars/jenkins.yml b/tests/group_vars/jenkins.yml
index 9a0da257..5cbe92c5 100644
--- a/tests/group_vars/jenkins.yml
+++ b/tests/group_vars/jenkins.yml
@@ -302,6 +302,13 @@ sshkeys:
   urls:
   user:
 
+
+harvest:
+  oaiserver:
+    maxidentifiers: 2
+    maxrecords: 2
+
+
 # un-nesting the below so's we can pass them at the CLI
 
 dataverse_branch: develop